. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 20 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN June, 1902 ELECTRICITY IN THE SAW MILL. The part electricity takes in the modern power plant for most any kind of service is becoming so general as to excite little com- ment, but saw mills generally seem to fail to appreciate that it is capable of a much wider range of usefulness than merely to furnish light. It is the purpose of this communication, writes S. S. Ingman, in the Wood-Worker, to briefly describe how it is employed in the pla
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 20 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN June, 1902 ELECTRICITY IN THE SAW MILL. The part electricity takes in the modern power plant for most any kind of service is becoming so general as to excite little com- ment, but saw mills generally seem to fail to appreciate that it is capable of a much wider range of usefulness than merely to furnish light. It is the purpose of this communication, writes S. S. Ingman, in the Wood-Worker, to briefly describe how it is employed in the plant of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, Georgetown, S. C., as an illustration along this line. This company operates four band mills now, two single, one double with a resaw, and one double with gang, all double-cutting bands. The combined cap icity of these mills is close around half a million feet of boards daily of what is known in the New England markets as " North Carolina pine," or what, is termed here as sap or spruce pine. The electric plant consists of four 45 k. w. and two 400 k. w. 250-volt direct-current dynamos, the four 45's being driven by a 225-horse power Reynolds-Corliss engine and the 400's each by a direct-connected Harrisburg " Ideal" engine of 150 horse-power each. The combined elec- trical horse-power at normal rating is over 300, and capable of 50 per cent, overload for long periods, or 100 per cent, overload for short periods. Besides lighting the mills, machine shops, foundry, car shops, planing mill offices and store rooms immediately connected with the mills, the company lights an immense store, probably one of the largest in the state, a large hotel, and several buildings in which officials of the company reside, and drives by means of motors the machine shop, pattern shop, foundry, car shops, planing mills, etc., all the file room machinery and sorting rolls in the sorting sheds, also a device connected with the kilns for movin
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